The following cable message was received by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) from General Sir Douglas Haig, Commander-in-chief of the British forces in ...
Article : 307 wordsAt about 8.15 Last night a handful of soldiers, accompanied by a lot of civilian youths, came out of Stirling-street, and assembled on the Beaufort-street bridge. After a ...
Article : 1,199 wordsYesterday's French communique stated:—"There were further counter-attacks at Verdun yesterday. A French air pilot, descending to a height of 100 yards, ...
Article : 255 wordsMr. Walter Runciman (President of the Board of Trade). replying to a deputation from the Scottish Trade Union Congress yesterday. said that owing to the increase ...
Article : 70 wordsTo-day, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., the electors of the Commonwealth are called upon to say, in effect, through the ballot box whether or not their ...
Article : 1,300 wordsThe British official report of the typhus epidemic in the prison camp at Gardelegen, in Germany, during the spring and summer of 1915 reveals horrifying German ...
Article : 764 wordsSergeant L. McCarthy, 16th Battalion (late of Lion Mill) has received from Major-General Sir H. V. Cox, K.C.M.G., C.B., C.S.I., commanding the 4th ...
Article : 1,259 wordsGeneral Birdwood: "The Anxacs feel sure that Australia will see that the sacrifices already made were not in vain, which may be the case, unless we are ...
Article : 107 wordsYesterday the Military Medal was awarded to 267 Australians and one New Zealander. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Adjutant-General (Sir H. McCre[?]): "Send us more men." ...
Article : 12 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the British mine-sweeper Genista, was sunk by a German submarine last Monday. All of the officers and 73 of the men on ...
Article : 63 wordsArchbishop Riley: "I have just been seeing all our troops in France, who are in good heart, and determined to see this war through successfully to the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe British Admiralty reported yesterday:—"Our naval aeroplanes attacked the railway stations at Buk and Drama to-day, and damaged the rolling stock. One ...
Article : 34 wordsArchbishop Clune: "Whoever believes in the rightcousness and justices of the war we are engaged in ought not to hesitate to vote for compulsory military ...
Article : 31 wordsYesterday's German communique stated:—"We defeated the Roumanians in Trotus Valley and the hills south of Parvituz. We gained ground towards Sinaia and ...
Article : 66 wordsThere is increasing indignation in Norway owing to Germany's submarine warfare against Norwegian shipping. Twenty-two vessels have been sunk since Sunday, ...
Article : 106 wordsTo all men comes the hour when Destiny Demands nobility of soul to rise Above the sordid welter wherein lies The baser self—to wake in eostasy. ...
Article : 105 wordsWhile Mackensen's big guns were shelling the port of Constanza the sailors of a Russian flotilla worked on bravely destroying the grain elevators and burning ...
Article : 164 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday Lord Sydenham raised the question of the depredations of the U53, and asked whether the submarine's actions were in conformity ...
Article : 207 wordsThe five-storey building owned by John Connell and Co. was partially destroyed by fire late on Wednesday night, three storeys being completely burnt out. The damage ...
Article : 107 wordsThe success of the French fire on the Document front was due to the French 15½in. shells to which the enemy artillery was powerless to reply. through the French ...
Article : 119 wordsYesterday's Bulgarfan communique stated: "Our Constanza booty includes 500 railway trucks, several locomotives numerous reservoirs of petrol, sheds and ...
Article : 39 wordsOwing to powerful Italian pressure on the Iscesso, Austria has countermanded the order for the movement of reserves continued for Roumania Strong German ...
Article : 57 wordsA cable message from London states that Colonel Charles Joseph Wilkie (of the Welsh Regiment), son of the late Captain Wilkie, formerly of Melbourne has been ...
Article : 694 wordsYesterday's German communique stated:—English local attacks failed north of Courcelette and at Le Sars, Gueudecurte, and Leu Boeufs. Favoured by the haze, ...
Article : 69 wordsProfessor Mucesterberg, of Harvard, recently declared that the German ideal was not individual work, but the service of the whole State. That was the true ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Crown Prince was not present at the last Verdun action. At the time he was visiting Berlin for the commemoration of the Kaiser's birthday. ...
Article : 33 wordsThere was a notable gathering at the Mansion House yesterday, when the Lord Mayor gave a luncheon to 300 overseas residents and visitors to London to meet the ...
Article : 267 wordsThe French casualties at Verdun were a little over 2,000. The "Temps" states that the French casualties in 115 days' fighting on the ...
Article : 51 wordsA Budapest newspaper publishes details of the Kaiser's life at the German Headquarters. The Kaiser spends the day in studying documents, and giving audiences ...
Article : 110 wordsMessages from Luxembourg state that 43 Red Cross trains full of wounded Germans from Verdun passed through in six hours on Wednesday in the direction of ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Government has published a report of the treatment of prisoners in France and Germany, showing how reprisals secured a mitigation of the brutalities practised ...
Article : 253 wordsFive thousand civilians of Ghent were deported to Germany on Monday, replacing German worksmen who were sent to the front, while 100,000 civilians of other ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the New York "Times" cables a summary of some remarkable documents, headed "Indisputable Proof of Germany's Latest Crime." The ...
Article : 950 wordsHansi Niese a popular Budapest actress, replying to a storm of applause in a Vienna theatre recently, expressed a preference for provisions rather than ...
Article : 50 wordsYesterday morning's Roumanian communique stated:—"We captured Mount Kerkharas south of Bucas. We repulsed the enemy in the Uzul Valley. Westward ...
Article : 161 wordsGeneral Falkenhayn's wound is serious, and it is feared that it will be necessary to amputate a leg. The Austrian Archduke Charles, who was ...
Article : 37 wordsDuring the motion for the adjournment of the House of Commons yesterday there was a discussion regarding the early closing of shops. Many members contended ...
Article : 109 wordsA Russian communique issued yesterday stated:—"We occupied Bidjar, west of Hamadan, taking many prisoners and two cannon." ...
Article : 25 wordsUp till this evening no trace had been found of the bodies of Mr. Banks and Miso Varian, two of the victims of the recent boating tragedy at Bunbury. The ...
Article : 58 wordsDuring bomb practice in the engineers' camp at Enoggera to-day four men were injured by a bomb exploding prematurely. One of the men was seriously hurt, a part ...
Article : 79 wordsThe members of the fifth reinforcements of the 42nd and 43rd battalions were entertained at luncheon by the Mayor of Kalgoorlie in the Town Hall to-day. Among ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 wordsNearly £14,000,000 has been received as the result of the sales by the Australian Wheat Board, and the net indebtedness of the pool to the banks and the Imperial ...
Article : 42 wordsIt was officially announced yesterday that an explosion took place in a munitions factory in Kent on Wednesday. Two deaths resulted, and 10 persons were seriously ...
Article : 35 wordsMiss Macmillan, of Beaufort-street, has been notified through the Red Cross that her brother, Robert Macmillan, 51st Battalion, who has been missing since ...
Article : 196 wordsA Russian official message states that the Dobrudja pressure has weakened. A Rome telegram announces that the Roumanians have blown up the Cernavoda ...
Article : 44 wordsTo-day in Adelaide 12 men volunteered, and 7 were accepted. ...
Article : 70 wordsLord Derby stated to an interviewer yesterday:—"We are firmly resolved to keep at home only the essential minimum. The Government has no thought of sparing men ...
Article : 42 wordsBelow is given the list of polling places in the Perth and Fremantle divisions, the letters "S.C.C.," indicating each sub-divisional counting centre, and the letters ...
Article : 446 wordsYouthful, Experimentalist.—A lad employed in the titles offices was demonstrating with a chemical substance in that building yesterday for the information of his ...
Article : 121 wordsIn response to an appeal made in our columns by Dr. Sweet for aid for Serbian Red Cross work, we have received the following:— ...
Article : 110 wordsReplying to Sir Edward Carson in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Asquith said that he did not think it possible or desirable to say any more than the ...
Article : 113 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Asquith announced that the Government would shortly introduce a Bill for the establishment of a Pensions Board under ...
Article : 41 wordsSales of the "Anzac Book" realised £3,000 for the Red Cross Fund. A new edition will be published next week. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 28 Oct 1916, Page 7
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